– Coco Chanel Click To Tweetĭespite the fact that The House of Chanel introduced the fashion women’s pants, Coco wore them quite rarely, as she believed that a woman would never look in the pants as good as a man would. In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different. She created an understated waist, dress shirt, pants for women and beach pajamas. A couple of years later, she sewed a redingote without a belt and ornaments, removing the bust and curves with almost masculine stringency. Coco continued to work vigorously, presenting new demands for clothing and generating new ideas: the first female skinny suit from Chanel. There were chaos and the ‘feast during the plague’ in France. The style produced by The House of Chanel was simple, practical and elegant. She dared to appear in the sailor suit and tight skirt on the beaches of seaside resorts.
She created a style that had been previously unthinkable for women – tracksuits. Usually, Coco threw a cloth on a mannequin, then cut and slaughtered a shapeless mass of material until the desired silhouette was manifested.Ĭhanel quickly became the world fashion designer, turning over the spotlight. She did not draw her sketches of clothing and did not sew them. While designing Coco did not excel herself, but simplified details. Both of the girls Coco recruited to model Chanel’s designs and advertise the Chanel fashion clothes.Īunt Adrienne (left) and Coco Chanel (right) near “Chanel Modes” on 21 Rue Cambon in Paris.Īll of her dress-discoveries were born that way. One was her sister, Antoinette Chanel and her aunt, Adrienne Chanel. Coco Chanel’s close family members have always been supportive. She started sewing dresses of jersey fabric, which had been only used for men’s underwear and earned her first capital on it. At this time, she had no right to make a ‘real’ women’s dresses, as she could be brought to justice for illegal competition because she was not a licensed dressmaker. The creator of the famous hats dreamt of developing her own line of women’s clothing. In 1913, Coco Chanel opened her boutique in Deauville that quickly attracted regular clients. Soon the street became known throughout the world and had been linked to her name for half a century. In 1910, Coco became a licensed modiste (hat maker) and opened a boutique named Chanel Modes on 21 Rue Cambon in Paris. It is derived from the famous song “Qui Qu’a Vu Coco?” that she used to sing.Īt the end of 1910, Coco Chanel finally broke up with Étienne Balsan and began to live with Captain “Boy” Capel. There Gabrielle acquired her nickname “Coco”. When not plying her trade with a needle and thread, she was singing in a cabaret “La Rotonde” frequented by cavalry officers. Having learned sewing arts during her six years at Aubazine shelter, Coco Chanel was able to find a job as a seamstress. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. She was afraid that reporters could find out about her extramarital origins, her mother’s death from bronchitis at the age of 31 or about her father who simply gave up having passed Gabrielle in a shelter at the age of 12. Coco Chanel even invented her story that when her mother died, her father sailed for America, and she lived in a cozy and clean house with two strict aunts, who in reality did not exist. The legendary Mademoiselle Chanel had been shy of her miserable childhood all her life. Her mother was a laundrywoman, in the charity hospital owned by the Sisters of Providence and her father was a street vendor who sold haberdashery goods on the street market. If things went well, they allowed themselves to have a primitive farm and settled down in some old abandoned shack, which people tried to get round. They did not have a permanent place to live. He married Jeanne Devolle several years after Coco Chanel was born. Gabrielle was born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France in the family of fair trader Albert Chanel and his girlfriend Eugénie Jeanne Devolle. We know very little about the childhood of Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.
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